Tutorial for running tor chrooted on OpenBSD

Contributed by
grey
on 2005-03-07
from the more incentives to run tor dept.

I've been doing a lot of experimenting with tor over the past few months, but only just noticed that tyranix has contributed (and even kept up to date) an entry in the tor FAQ about running tor chrooted on OpenBSD, and he even has suggestions for running it with systrace! While this might not excite all of our readers as much as it did me, you can read more here:

For those unfamiliar with tor, be sure to check out the site's project page at: http://tor.eff.org.

And, for those who have been using tor on OpenBSD, and have been frustrated by the lack of tsocks, and thus not having a working torify.sh script - check out Dug Song's dsocks. The included dsocks.sh and dsock-torify.sh make for welcome substitutes.

And for those of you who have been looking, Dugsong's dsocks implementation is a nice way to torify (socksify) existing applications that are not statically linked without recompilation and code invasion. I also added it to the ports tree this morning (ports/net/dsocks). See Dugsong's dsocks page for more details.